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Who writes the social contract? The in-group.
How does the social contract evolve over time if every single person that doesn't abide to it in its current form is ostracized? It doesn't.
It's not a literal contract. Tying theories about tolerance to it is more or less just saying "fuck it whatever".
The paradox of tolerance is of course a real thing but this isn't the solution. All it does is erode the principles necessary to even hold to the idea of tolerance in the first place.